The main objective of process automation is reducing costs and boosting operational efficiency. As far as hospitals and other healthcare facilities are concerned, automation of processes improves clinical quality and work flow. Baptist Health is a healthcare provider...
Using Data Mining Techniques to Enhance Clinical Decision-making
Various techniques have been introduced in recent years to predict heart disease. Tools and techniques in data mining help to discover hidden patterns and valuable information to help make important decisions. Recent research conducted by a group of Japanese...
Data Mining: A Powerful Tool for Acquiring Business Intelligence
A recent report on Toward Freedom points out that the National Security Agency (NSA) is using data mining techniques to predict events such as political protests, pandemics, and economic crises. Experts are analyzing the US government-collected online data to...
Importance of Data Mining in Fleet Management
Data mining is becoming increasingly important in managing truck fleets. Predictive modeling techniques and data analysis often helps fleet managers manage their data better. For instance, proper data analysis and predictive modeling techniques can be used to...
Data Mining Techniques Used to Study Impact of Immigration on the US Economy
Mining data relating to patents helped researchers determine that immigrants were not stealing the thunder from ethnic Americans. For decades, immigrants have played a vital role in the U.S. labor force and economy at large. Most arrive on H1-B visas that US firms use...
Data Mining – Crunching Customer Data for Higher ROI as reported by CNN
Data mining or data discovery is a concept that businesses use to acquire and analyze specific information about their market – the relationship between behaviors and variables - and use it to their best advantage. Mining is successfully applied in sectors such as...
How to Find Safety Records of Transportation Companies: Data Mining and Capture from SAFER Website
Businesses transporting goods to their customers or products from their manufacturing facility to the showroom need to ensure they put their precious wares in safe hands. The right trucking company will ensure cost-effectiveness by transporting the goods on time....
Data Mining of Medical Records – National Center for Policy Analysis Research Provides Proof that it is an Effective Way to Detect Medical Misdiagnosis
Diagnostic errors can damage a patient's health and cost money, or even prove fatal. The basis of every doctor-patient relationship is trust. Medical misdiagnosis can change this. Losing their patients’ trust is the worst thing that can happen to a physician. Alarming...
Web Data Mining Uncovers Unreported Side-Effects of Drugs
Data mining (DM) has helped improve healthcare forecasting, investigation, and visualization. Despite privacy and security issues pertaining to patient data, health care organizations are finding that mining patient data and community data offers value and helps in...
Challenged in Managing Data Entry in EHR’s (Electronic Health Records)
Electronic health records (EHRs) are essential for managing patient information more efficiently and providing high quality care. Efficient entry of data into EHR systems is crucial. As they focus on providing quality care, healthcare providers can rely on data entry...